Back at the dawn of time when I sold shopfittings for a living, we got a weekly scam message, probably the same people that have a rich Nigerian relative, and the one thing that I loved about them was they would always use a famous musician as their alias, like it was a common, run of the mill practice to name your children Elvis Presley, James Brown, Leonard Cohen and (I shit you not) Little Richard.
What is more annoying is our workplace IT team generates these fake phishing emails that get sent to our work accounts at random intervals which when we read we are meant to be able determine are fake and click the phishing alert button on Microsoft outlook. If you miss you are allocated to retake the annual email security training webinar.
Your IT team probably has some hair raising stories about how many of your colleagues click on the offer they've sent through and really need to be subjected to that security training webinar 😂
Man, when someone tells you that they tried to log into the site that promised them free money because they thought it was a christmas bonus and you can literally see log in attempts from Israel IPs in their Azure...
This. We get emails from Teams if we don't look at something, and IT send fake ones as well. I clicked on one once and got their cheery shite message about being careful, so, taking their advice, I just delete anything coming from Teams, real or not.
And if you don't do the mandatory security training, you're not eligible for a bonus or pay rise. One year the knobs didn't even record who had done what. Lots of consternation there.
I've long ago concluded that all CTOs get their advice and direction from the advertisements in in-flight magazines and from golfing buddies. It's a very smalll pool. Mostly performative, so that the board can be told that they're "doing best practice".
I just did a quick Outlook search for you cos we are the same - internal Phishing campaigns and some of them are quite sophisticated. But now we just ping each other with the latest attempt.
My favourite is the ones who write to us about SEO and ensuring that we end up on the front page of Google results. If they actually knew anything about SEO and did their research, they'd know that if you google the Australian Democrats our website is the first result each time already. Really kind of undercuts the selling point of their so called expertise 😂
Our spam filter blocks literally millions of these per year for our clients. Literally millions. Some of them are law firms and some of them sit on a lot of domains and M365 and Avanan do the hard yards to stop much of this shit.
Back when I worked for iiBorg, I saw stats that something like 96% of email was pure spam, 3.5% was marketing shit and bugger all was actual email.
My current winner is the recent email about my unsavoury habits and the malware they installed to watch me through my camera. The email started with "Hello Pervert" and since then we greet each other in the office with "Hello Pervert", loads of ongoing fun for the UberNerds and ExtraGeeks.
Back at the dawn of time when I sold shopfittings for a living, we got a weekly scam message, probably the same people that have a rich Nigerian relative, and the one thing that I loved about them was they would always use a famous musician as their alias, like it was a common, run of the mill practice to name your children Elvis Presley, James Brown, Leonard Cohen and (I shit you not) Little Richard.
What is more annoying is our workplace IT team generates these fake phishing emails that get sent to our work accounts at random intervals which when we read we are meant to be able determine are fake and click the phishing alert button on Microsoft outlook. If you miss you are allocated to retake the annual email security training webinar.
Your IT team probably has some hair raising stories about how many of your colleagues click on the offer they've sent through and really need to be subjected to that security training webinar 😂
Man, when someone tells you that they tried to log into the site that promised them free money because they thought it was a christmas bonus and you can literally see log in attempts from Israel IPs in their Azure...
This. We get emails from Teams if we don't look at something, and IT send fake ones as well. I clicked on one once and got their cheery shite message about being careful, so, taking their advice, I just delete anything coming from Teams, real or not.
And if you don't do the mandatory security training, you're not eligible for a bonus or pay rise. One year the knobs didn't even record who had done what. Lots of consternation there.
It sounds like we employ the same knobs at our workplace, perhaps there is an external consultancy Nobs Inc.
I've long ago concluded that all CTOs get their advice and direction from the advertisements in in-flight magazines and from golfing buddies. It's a very smalll pool. Mostly performative, so that the board can be told that they're "doing best practice".
I just did a quick Outlook search for you cos we are the same - internal Phishing campaigns and some of them are quite sophisticated. But now we just ping each other with the latest attempt.
My favourite is the ones who write to us about SEO and ensuring that we end up on the front page of Google results. If they actually knew anything about SEO and did their research, they'd know that if you google the Australian Democrats our website is the first result each time already. Really kind of undercuts the selling point of their so called expertise 😂
seems legit.
Our spam filter blocks literally millions of these per year for our clients. Literally millions. Some of them are law firms and some of them sit on a lot of domains and M365 and Avanan do the hard yards to stop much of this shit.
Back when I worked for iiBorg, I saw stats that something like 96% of email was pure spam, 3.5% was marketing shit and bugger all was actual email.
My current winner is the recent email about my unsavoury habits and the malware they installed to watch me through my camera. The email started with "Hello Pervert" and since then we greet each other in the office with "Hello Pervert", loads of ongoing fun for the UberNerds and ExtraGeeks.
Laughs. F**k off, losers.
Nothing gets my ‘take my money now’ juices flowing like the offer of a ‘no obligation audit report’.
i'm waiting for the day when I fall for one of these things. The ones that arent even trying have a sort of nostalgia to them.